It is a measure of the impact someone has made that even after they have moved on, superstitions about them endure. For some, there’s an almost religious believe that a huge figure cannot be diminished by retirement, loss of status or even death (there’s a special 1970s category for Elvis and Bruce Lee).
Prepare yourself: Peter Lawwell is not Elvis Presley. He can’t sing like Elvis, he seldom dresses like him and under no circumstances should you confuse the supernatural powers attributed to ‘The King’ in the late 70s to our former chief executive.
Peter retired on appointing Ange Postecoglou in the summer of 2021, when Dominic McKay started his summer placement in charge. By September, Michael Nicholson, previously company secretary and in-house lawyer, was temporarily then permanently given the top job.
18 months after he left, Lawwell agreed to replace Ian Bankier as chairman. As Celtic’s representative, Peter was on the board of the European Club Association (currently vice chair) and was working with Uefa on the new Financial Sustainability Regulations. It suited the club and our interests that Peter take the role, allowing him to extend Celtic’s influence at Uefa.
Back when Elvis’ died, football club chairmen carried executive roles. They often opened the doors in the morning, did the accounts, sorted the banking and were always responsible for player contracts and budgeting. The role has changed. Lots.
In a modern PLC, a chairman is a non-executive, “unconnected with the day-to-day management of a business and which is instead concerned with effective management of the board”. That means they are unconnected to player contracts, signing strategies or – and I cannot be clearer on this one – managerial appointments.
Such matters are reserved for the executive team and any major shareholders they are answerable to. At Celtic, this is Michael Nicholson and Dermot Desmond.
Peter Lawwell was a huge influence in Scottish football and a significant figure in Europe. Without him at the helm in 2012, Newco Rangers would have been voted into the SPL, debt free and ready to go again. Back then I got some credit for starting a campaign on this issue, but take my word for it, all credit was due to Peter. He fought and won the most intense battle Scottish football has ever seen, and like Keyser Soze, he left everyone searching in the shadows.
We scarcely got to see Dom McKay and Michael Nicholson has had two and a half years of low-profile management, a benefit of inheriting a club on the up. As a consequence, when people think ‘Celtic board’ they assume Elvis lives. In every meaningful way, Elvis has left the building. He doesn’t sing the songs or choose the band. If you think otherwise, you’re howling at the (blue) moon, and ironically, applying absolutely no pressure to the wound.
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🎵 Oh I am a Merry PLO bhoy 🎵
Jungletuunneess CSC
Favourite TV western – Four Feather Falls
Weep wail gnash teeth
Weep wail gnash teeth
Weep etc etc..
Repeat..Re Peter Lawwell
On a lighter note…Westerns..
The Man Who shot Liberty Valance…
On an even lighter note.
New Western
The Man Who Shot Peter Lawwell out of a cannon at Celtic Park before a game against his favourite Club..
Big John shot Liberty Valance
I suppose it’s a must win tomorrow.
Any manager has several hours of viewing to see how to stay in the game against us till the last 15 mins
If we score in the first 15 mins, we’ll probably win
TONTINE TIM on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:04 PM
Can you please tell me what would make someone a “hunterloper”?
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:16 PM
🎵 Oh I am a Merry PLO bhoy 🎵
*that was the theme for a carling Black Label commercial when I landed here in the late 60s by a group called the Irish Rovers who hailed, NOT hail hailed, fae Ballymena I hasten to add, after a bit they changed their name to just the Rovers
Liberty Valance starred in the movie called…….Oh I am a Merry Cowbhoy
TONTINE TIM on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:32 PM 👍
Thought not….
BOURNESOUPRECIPE @ 5:29 PM,
Yeah
But someone else took all the credit…
Just don’t know who to trust;)
Hail Hail
from Pablo5 at Kerrydale
The UK Corporate Governance Code recommends 9 years maximum for Chairs.
After 9 years NEDs aren’t considered to be independent, so that’s usually a cap on the terms they serve.
Less than 5% of FTSE company NEDs serve more than 9 years, so for Celtic to have a couple over 20 and one at 19 years is remarkable.
Lawwell’s largely been a presence on the board for 22 years as well, so that takes us to four serving well beyond the recommended limit.
There are nine seats on the Celtic board.
It’s not hard to work out why this is a badly run club.
Def.
Hunterloper – anyone who dares to call out Peter Lawwell or anyone else on the board or Celtic staff…..
That about it?
Can we get on with supporting and bolstering the team between now and May? There’s no reasonable alternative
ROBERTTRESSELL on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:48 PM
Can we get on with supporting and bolstering the team between now and May? There’s no reasonable alternative
100% but you can still do that whilst questioning the direction of travel we are on.
Roberttressell,
Said the same thing meself last week. Support who is on the field and give them the backing to win this league again. Last two games we could have won by a lot but we didn’t, so get over it and lets get cracking.
Come on the hoops.
Sean
ROBERTTRESSELL on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:48 PM
Can we get on with supporting and bolstering the team between now and May? There’s no reasonable alternative
*aye because thats what a supporter is but as long as the huns are allowed free reign on here to divide us it will NEVER happen, when Paul set this blog up it was for Celtic supporters and their friends, I still have bluenose pal but nae hun ones as they contribute sweet eff all tae this blog but only sew disharmony
Singing from the same hymn sheet CSC……
Debate/discussion is healthy CSC…….
Bazza67
Ask Dermot bout that.
BSR
TV Westerns
Alias Smith and Jones
HH
ROBERTTRESSELL on 6TH FEBRUARY 2024 5:48 PM
Can we get on with supporting and bolstering the team between now and May? There’s no reasonable alternative
You split the atom there RobertTressell.
So easy to do and so simple.
Hail Hail
“Without him at the helm in 2012, Newco Rangers would have been voted into the SPL, debt free and ready to go again”
Turnbull Hutton would be spinning in his grave if he read that guff.
Good article Paul.
Waste of time though.
You might as well ask ‘where has the Seville money gone’ ?
Folk don’t want the facts. That’s boring. Folk just want a bogey man to blame for their own inadequacies my friend.
adding to good westerns,
Anyone remember Shalako with Sean Connery. Main song written by Jim Dale from Carry on movie fame.
Loved watching that when I was a wee boy.
Sean
Bazza67
Peter Lawwell has only been a Non Exec for a year or so.
Prior to that he was in Exec roles.
Granted others have been non exec for longer.
That particular point is a typical issue where one person effectively controls the club and needs a personal proxy for normal board functions.
An T
Alias Smith and Jones
Brilliant.
Pete Duel…….taken too soon.
Is the Best Best Western?
The Best Western Plus?
The Best Western Premier?
or The Best Western Signature Collection?
Nice try P67 however the truth that Celtic had the same one SPL and SFA vote is lost on the many who will always believe what they want to believe, regardless of facts. Coupled with an insane need for escaped goats your leader will not change any hearts and minds. Like Fergus McCann I think PL and his part in decades of success will be judged kinder in retrospect.
This has to be the strangest Celtic blog on the planet, a lot of hate towards Celtic staff – who don’t routinely balloon sitters over the bar consequently dropping us right in the brown stuff, no its the suits that get it because well just because. Check out the 12.10 post, its fairly representative of what we get on here nowadays.
Was Kung Fu the best Eastern Western?
I would say blazing saddles, but if you watch that these days, including Monty Python and the Life of Brian, then your afterlife choice is made for you !!!
Paul 67,
I have never knowingly met Peter Lawwell and I never met Elvis.
Despite all the controversy the king of rock and roll’s legacy remains largly intact.
Will history look favourably on Peter Lawwell. ?
It might not be flavour of the month, but I think so.
HH.
Brendan’s Presser
Paul 67,
Elvis, off piste, curious and Vodoo.
More power to your pen, your getting as wacky as the rest of us
HH.
A Fistful of Dynamite..
A “Western ” set in Mexico whose main character is an IRA explosives expert with flashbacks to him shooting his best pal (turned informer) in Toners Pub in Baggot Street,Dublin.
Duck Ya Sucker…
Duck ya sucker
Celtic Board meeting the fans
https://youtu.be/jbFL4uDyMdw?feature=shared
The spend our money trope is a little lazy, oversimplified and gives no guarantee of yield (Man U or Newcastle, anyone?).
But – one place we can put resource to that can be controlled and will give us an advantage over opponents is the grass on the pitch.
The return on investment is absolute and helps our playing style in the winter months – at least we can try a little harder with that?